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4 Status of Planning for the Management of Secondary Wastes at BGCAPP and PCAPP
4 Status of Planning for the Management of Secondary Wastes at BGCAPP and PCAPP
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. Categories of Secondary Wastes and Waste Descriptions Waste Categories and Quantities Waste Descriptions Secondary wastes from the processing of chemical mu- As discussed in Operations and Closure Agent-Connitions at BGCAPP according to the current design, which taminated Waste Disposal Estimate Summary Report (known uses neutralization followed by supercritical water oxidation as the Waste Estimate Summary Report)
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Rocket processing operations Preferred disposal method for noncontaminated rocket motors is offsite recycling Contaminated rocket motors hydrolyzed in energetics batch hydrolyzers Energetics (projectile bursters) H projectile processing operations Hydrolysis in energetics batch hydrolyzers Projectile munitions bodies Projectile processing operations Metal parts treater Metallic debris Maintenance and closure activities Metal parts treater Unspecified TSDF (if agent contamination concentration is below release criteria)
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3X-4X Waste (unless otherwise noted) Operationsb Closurec Inert bulk solid waste Metal 1,243,545 Combustible solids 2,623 22,014 �������� Concrete 152,369 Metal 22,087 571,717 Aluminum waste 6,685 TAP gear/rubber 1,066 1,066 Foam core panels 95,498 Halogenated plastic 14,360 151,039 Special coatings 12,333 Nonhalogenated plastic 1,733 20,994 Combustible bulk solid 3X pre-HEPA filters 82 5,084 Nonhalogenated plastics 50,972 Sludge 64 64 Tap gear 4,555 3X concrete 0 79,993 HEPA filters and prefilters 19,997 3X foam wall panel 0 50,136 Adsorbents, cottons, rags, bulk 4,477 Special coatings 0 6,475 Paper, wood, fiberglass, rubber 63,794 3X aluminum 48 3,435 Halogenated plastics 308,404 Total 42,063 912,017 Sludge 1,997 a The source document for the estimates given in this table reported quanRCRA toxic metal-bearing waste tities using the Army's X system of classification rather than the currently Paint chips 121 preferred system based on AELs.
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filtrate solid waste, SCWO titanium Solids from the Munitions Treatment Unit tank liners, venturi scrubber particulate filters, and energetics Solids from the munitions treatment unit (MTU) include offgas treatment system filters before submitting the waste munitions bodies and burster wells as well as residue (e.g., analysis plan required by RCRA.
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Spent decontamination solution Operations, maintenance, and closure Onsite agent hydrolyzers activities Spill residue Spill response activities SDU (agent-contaminated) Unspecified TSDF (if agent contamination concentration is below release criteria)
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Wood dunnage 3,550,390 0 Stream Description <1 VSL >1 VSL Fiber tube 731,369 0 TAP gear 28,638 11,088 Wood 0 56,906 Steel/aluminum 38,182,554 129 Fiber tubes, additional packing material, 0 0 Brine reduction generated 55,114,416 0 metal strapping, miscellaneous metal Water recovery thickener residue 3,900,792 0 TAP gear 9,639 6,709 Energetics 138,225 0 Steel 0 0 Brass and copper wire 211,600 0 Lead alloy 0 0 Charcoal from PPE mask containers 2,583 1,000 Aluminum 18 53 Bulk solid waste 240,404 656,930 Brine reduction 0 0 Halogenated waste 27,294 93,983 Water recovery thickener residue 0 0 DPE suits 202,524 78,416 Energetics 0 0 Waste oils 7,687 2,976 Brass/copper wire 0 0 Spent hydraulic fluid 4,928 1,908 Charcoal from PPE mask containers 0 2,583 Leather 2,974 1,151 Inert bulk solid waste 15,421 35,790 Absorbents 23,886 16,447 Halogenated waste 3,153 2,661 Polystyrene and polyethylene (poly drums 14,024 3,685 DPE suits 121,514 81,010 and 5-mil poly bags) Waste oils/spent hydraulic fluid 2,416 400 HEPA/prefilters 0 38,000 Leather 437 197 HVAC 0 207,900 Absorbents 1,534 3,554 Filtration charcoal 0 170,000 Paper/fiberglass/rubber 0 0 Filter plenums 0 100,000 Polystyrene and polyethylene 669 2,318 Filter ductwork Combustible solid waste 2,827 2,382 Concrete scabbled 0 27,000 Waste paint sludge 915 455 Combustible solid wastes Electrical parts/instrumentation 572 48,862 Dry cell batteries 1,828 203 (>5% plastics)
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Examples of such process-related Brine reduction 0 0 Water recovery thickener residue 0 0 wastes are wood pallets, PPE, rocket motors, plastics, toxic Propellant 0 0 agent protective gear, HEPA filters, absorbents, paper, and Brass/copper wire 0 0 rubber. Monitoring for agent contamination is to be conCharcoal 0 1000 ducted in accordance with the Department of the Army's Inert bulk solid waste 262,351 259,498 Implementation Guidance Policy for Revised Airborne ExpoHalogenated waste 27,946 25,910 DPE suits closure (APB)
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. The method previously used suffered from inacindicated, Table 4-6 shows the total estimated secondary curacy derived from the GB re-formation that occurred in wastes, while Tables 4-7 and 4-8 show projected generated the heated injector of the gas chromatograph used for the quantities of contaminated secondary wastes according analysis.
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an organic that the method that had been used at Newport Chemical phase that contains organics having limited water solubil- Agent Disposal Facility could be used at BGCAPP. Howity (Dejarme and Lecakes, 2008)
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for removal of liquids from areas of the facility under engineering controls To determine if a transportation risk assessment is necesfor limiting exposure to agent. Depending on the require sary for offsite shipments of secondary wastes, the Army has ments established in the facility's WAP, such wastes must proposed using hazardous solid waste assessment methodbe characterized using an appropriate methodology before ologies to ensure that concentrations of residual agent in any being shipped offsite.
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The which were not a part of the process at Aberdeen, where the Waste Estimate Summary Report proposes that the wastes hydrolysate was sent to a commercial TSDF. be chemically decontaminated and then shipped offsite for The largest volumes of closure wastes will be steel additional treatment and/or disposal rather than processed and other metals, activated carbon, halogenated plastic, and through the MPT (BPBGT, 2006a)
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However, the characterization, management, and disposal of chemical agents and the related secondary wastes at chemical agent if emissions during pilot-scale testing are higher than those disposal facilities are not specifically addressed in federal or assumed for the MPHRA, it will be revised. Since the po state regulations and must therefore be addressed in the indi- tential requirement for an MPHRA is likewise applicable to vidual chemical agent disposal facility permit.
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for shipments of hazardous hazardous waste assessment methodologies to appropriately materials; however, a TRA can suggest measures to further characterize the waste to assure agent concentrations are mitigate risk, including routing to reduce the mileage, popu- within the bounding condition of the TRA.25 lation along the route, and/or crash likelihood; additional or strengthened barriers to an uncontrolled release; and control and of ambient and/or postcrash environments. A site-specific risk assessment should be developed to assess Neither the state of Kentucky nor the state of Colorado and establish the necessary monitoring requirements for has specific requirements that address the transportation of loading, transportation, and processing operations related to chemical munitions or wastes derived from them.
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